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Botany & Science. Hales (Stephen, BD, FRS), Statical Essays: Containing Vegetable Staticks; Or, An Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables: Being An Essay towards a Natural History of Vegetation [...], Also, A Specimen of an Attempt to Analyse the Air, by a great Variety of Chymio-Statical Experiments [...], second edition, volume I only, London: Printed by W. Innys, et al, 1731, complete: [vi], xii, 376pp, illustrated with 19 engraved plates as called for, water-staining to prelims, some milder stains in places throughout, often marginal on letterpress leaves and sometimes just touching within the platemark, toned in places, split but holding, contemporary calf gilt, worn with losses, split joints holding, 8vo
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